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The news has been so batshit this week that we almost forgot to tell you there’s a new tell-all book from a pissed off former Trump staffer! This dude’s name is Cliff Sims and he was a communications aide — you know, when the comms department wasn’t quite as much of a wasteland as it…
Following a year in which YouTube has repeatedly promoted conspiracy-theory videos during breaking news events like the shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Las Vegas, the company announced on Monday a slew of new features it hopes will make news on the platform more reliable and less susceptible to manipulation. The company is also investing $25…
In the first few hours of a newborn’s life, doctors administer a vitamin K shot. This is because infants are born without enough of the vitamin, and the baby needs a boost to prevent any potential bleeding. This is a routine practice—ask your pediatrician, your obstetrician, or the CDC. “Babies are born with very low…
Fake news sucks, and as those eerily accurate videos of a lip-synced Barack Obama demonstrated last year, it’s soon going to get a hell of a lot worse. As a newly revealed video-manipulation system shows, super-realistic fake videos are improving faster than some of us thought possible. The SIGGRAPH 2018 computer graphics and design conference…
Facebook Inc. FB 0.83% plans to start ranking news sources in its feed based on user evaluations of credibility, a major step in its effort to fight false and sensationalist information that will also push the company further into a role it has long sought to avoid—content referee. The social-media giant will begin testing the effort next week by…
At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 were injured in a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip late Sunday night. Police have confirmed that “one suspect is down” and they do not believe there are any more shooters. Authorities are looking to talk to a “female companion” as a possible person of…
The morning after President Donald Trump‘s impromptu White House press conference in which he spent over an hour largely bashing American media as “fake news,” his supporters are doing their part to discredit the Fourth Estate. Twitter abounds on Friday morning with users posting their complaints about the media—CNN is a prime target, as it…
An Allstate ad on Nowtheendbegins.com, next to an article claiming that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting did not happen. By emphasizing technology and data in placing online ads, marketers risk bankrolling sites that are toxic to society Advertising on the internet has never been easier. Data and automation increasingly allow companies large and small…
The new issue of Jacobin is out now. To mark its release, we’re offering discounted introductory subscriptions. The shooting at the Comet Pizzeria in Washington, DC last weekend brought the subject of fake news to national attention. The gunman was “self-investigating” the preposterous claim that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta operated a child sex ring out…
This article has been updated to include a link to a Firefox version of the extension. On Friday morning, President-elect Donald Trump took a new tack in his war on the Russia hacking issue. Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions…